Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: GNOME/Freedesktop/redhat incompetent or malicious influence Date: 13 Oct 2024 18:24:03 GMT Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <6708495f@news.ausics.net> <7e5a688b-d740-b8e0-c067-ec7b7f3b85bf@example.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net AVYa+4elL7fytlpNVm3C/wIV8TE84Yv++xPl/5+6CusYw2Sxi/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:UtH9svY0ZuK8LWHVWsnZ0iYP3i8= sha256:pB4szCE89nF+Qe4J/adg2Z2vYXCTw98qx5vgk0BQTtE= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:59355 On Sun, 13 Oct 2024 11:50:39 +0200, D wrote: > But there is this Ladybug browser, with the associated OS, can that be > something? It's more viable than TempleOS or some of the others. https://wiki.osdev.org/Notable_Projects A new OS has to be better than the existing alternatives, not only different. It also needs to inspire the confidence that it will be around for longer than a mayfly. A small scale example is Mbed OS. https://os.mbed.com/blog/entry/Important-Update-on-Mbed/ https://blog.arduino.cc/2019/07/31/why-we-chose-to-build-the-arduino- nano-33-ble-core-on-mbed-os/ The second link is why Arduino chose Mbed for the Nano 33 BLE Sense. It made perfect sense in 2019. Arduino wasn't the only one to use Mbed. Now they are scrambling to move to Zephyr OS. https://blog.arduino.cc/2024/07/24/the-end-of-mbed-marks-a-new-beginning- for-arduino/ Compared to a general purpose OS like Linux or BSD, an embedded RTOS is samll potatoes but for something like Firefox for example to develop for a new OS there has to be the confidence it isn't going to die. That applies to many projects other than OSs where you're dependent on a third party.